Pursuant to Committee Rule 7(g), the Chair and Ranking Republican Member of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct determined on December 30, 2010, to release the following statement:

Pursuant to Committee Rules 7(g), 17 A(g), and 17 A(b )(2), the Chair and RankingRepublican Member of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct determined to release the attached report of the Committee's nonpartisan, professional staff. The staff report provides analysis of and recommendations about the matters regarding Representatives Robert Aderholt, G.K. Butterfield, Eliot Engel, Alcee Hastings, Solomon Ortiz, and Joe Wilson, which were transmitted to the Committee by the Office of Congressional Ethics on July 30, 2010. In light of the recommendations of the staff, the Committee will take no further action regarding these six matters.